Qaanaaq, Greenland, Arctic
Qaanaaq is also known as "new Thule" because it was founded in 1953 when the original settlement of Thule was relocated away from the top-secret US Air Force base at Pituffik. Today the town of 675 mostly Inuit hunters and fishermen is the municipal seat of a district covering 279,000 sq km, with a total population of only about 1,000 people, northern Greenland.
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